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Textile: ITC 2013.30 Contains digital media

sampler

1875

Cross stitch sampler worked on perforated board with stitched prayer worked in red and green silk. The inscription is enclosed in a simple border design and features the date, 1875 at its base. T...

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Textile: ITC 2011.163 Contains digital media

Stevengraph bookmark

Thomas Stevens (1854-1940)

c. 1870

A silk Stevengraph bookmark in a card folder. It has a gothic design in red, green and yellow with a central black and white picture of three choirboys at a lectern; the above text in blue and red rea...

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Textile: ITC 2011.68 Contains digital media

Cotton Sateen: Schreiner Botany Finish [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-); Naylor, Jennings & Co, Ltd, Yeadon

1934

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying six annotated samples of cotton sateen: (from top left) grey, singed, mercerised, dyed with direct dyes, schreinered, fini...

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Textile: ITC 2011.71 Contains digital media

Cheapest Cotton Lingerie [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-); T. Cross & Co. Bolton

1932

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying six annotated samples of dyed cotton. The samples are annotated thus: (from top left) Grey; 2 Tw. Caustic Soda boil 8 hour...

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Textile: ITC 2011.66 Contains digital media

Cotton and Viscose Warp Satin [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-); Naylor, Jennings & Co, Ltd, Yeadon

1934

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying eight annotated samples of cotton and viscose warp satin in different stages of treatment and entitled accordingly: (from ...

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Textile: ITC 2013.21 Contains digital media

sampler

Murrison, Jane T

1868

Embroidered sampler worked in cross stitch and square stitch by Jane T. Morrison, aged 12, 1868. The sampler is worked in horizontal bands, enclosed in a repeat geometric pattern border and features...

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Textile: ITC 2011.65 Contains digital media

Cotton and Viscose Warp Satin and Cotton and Viscose Twill [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-); Naylor, Jennings & Co, Ltd, Yeadon

1934

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying: 1. four annotated samples of cotton and viscose warp satin, entitled: 'grey', 'singed', 'bleached and dyed with direct ...

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Textile: ITC 2011.76 Contains digital media

Lancashire Fabrics [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-)

early 20th-mid 20th Century

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 12 annotated samples of warp satin cotton textiles in different stages of finish and types of shade. The samples are anno...

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Textile: ITC 2011.77 Contains digital media

Lancashire Fabrics [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-)

early 20th-mid 20th Century

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 11 annotated samples of Limbric woven cottons, in different states and types of shades. The samples are annotated thus (fr...

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Textile: ITC 2011.74 Contains digital media

Reversible Stripe Cotton Bedcovers for export to Denmark, Norway and Sweden [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-)

1932

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying seven annotated samples of reversible striped cotton in different stages of preparation. The samples are annotated thus: ...

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Textile: ITC 2011.70 Contains digital media

Coloured Stripe Shadow Stripe Poplin [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-); T. Cross & Co. Bolton

1932

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying five annotated samples of coloured stripe and shadow stripe poplin in different stages of treatment. The samples are enti...

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Textile: ITC 2011.72 Contains digital media

Java Cambrics (Cotton) [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-); T. Cross & Co. Bolton

1932

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying six annotated samples of dyed cambric cottons in different stages of preparation. The samples are annotated thus: (from to...

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